Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server"

Subject: Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server"
From: "Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:09:05 -0700


While [Merriam-]Webster's does not address pronunciation of initialism, a few other sources more widely accepted than Wikipedia do:

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=initialism

an acronym formed from initial letters

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Compact Oxford English Dictionary

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/initialism?view=uk

an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g. BBC).

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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition

http://www.bartleby.com/61/48/I0144850.html

An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word.

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Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861621327

word made of initials pronounced separately: an abbreviation made up of initial letters that are all pronounced separately, e.g. UN for United Nations

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None the less, and notwithstanding (or nonetheless and not with standing), wikipedia does go to some lengths to explore various approaches to the enunication of sequences of letters used as names, AND as a bonus reports the "world's longest initialism, according to the Guinness Book of World Records is NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT" and also addresses recursive acronyms like GNU, providing a separate entry all about them (CAVE, LAME, PHP, PINE, ...) and cites a comic strip:
"Recursive acronyms appeared in a Dilbert comic strip,
in which Dilbert states that the TTP project refers to
The TTP Project...."

--GKH
SEiSV


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References:
"a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: arroxaneullman
Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: Art Campbell
Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: Art Campbell
Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: Guy K. Haas
Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: Art Campbell

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